[R-pkg-devel] compact PDF - vignettes

[Uwe Ligges]

On 24.05.2017 18:06, Fernanda De Bastiani wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> please, I am trying to submit a package to CRAN (with a vignette) but I
> receive the following warning
> 
> * checking sizes of PDF files under 'inst/doc' ... WARNING
> 
>    'gs+qpdf' made some significant size reductions:
>       compacted 'name.pdf' from 1212Kb to 924Kb
>    consider running tools::compactPDF(gs_quality = "ebook") on these files
> 
> 
> I use windows sytem and Rstudio. I have added this command
> --compact-vignettes="gs+qpdf" in the build option, then I received the
> message above. Please what exactly I have to add or change in order to
> improve the gs quality to ebook?

Not sure about RStudio, but in R I'd use
R CMD build --compact-vignettes="both" ...
but note you need to have both gs and qpdf installed and on the PATH.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




> Thank you,
> Fernanda
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